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Susan Hayward: Death
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In Tulsa, which takes place in the 1920s, Hayward plays the delightfully named Cherokee "Cherry" Lansing, feisty daughter of an Oklahoma cattle rancher. When an accident at the nearby Tanner oil company causes her father's death, Cherry determines to ruin Bruce Tanner (Lloyd Gough)—by competing with him in his own industry. With the financial and emotional support of her late father's overseer, Jim Redbird (Pedro Armendariz, From Russia with Love), Cherry builds an oil rig and starts drilling. When handsome young engineer Brad Brady (Robert Preston, The Music Man) arrives uninvited to criticize her operation, sparks fly between him and Cherry, and she takes him on as business partner…and, pretty soon, fiancé.
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Hayward died at age 57 on March 14, 1975, of pneumonia-related complications of her brain cancer, having survived considerably longer than doctors had originally predicted. She was cremated and buried next to her second husband, Eaton Chalkley, with whom she had converted to Roman Catholicism, in Carrollton, Georgia. She was survived by her two sons. Chalkley was by all accounts the love of Hayward's life, and they had lived together happily in Carrollton for years before his death in 1966.
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"The nasty plot has Hayward playing real-life Barbara Graham, whose sensational trial brought her a conviction and death sentence that made her a nationwide cause celebre. The film depicts Graham, the product of a broken home, as a classic bad girl: perjurer, prostitute, thief.
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